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Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy

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By fests’ end, we can pretty much claim that Lee Daniels’ second trip to Cannes was indeed an eventful one, except for all the wrong reasons. Following 2009’s Un Certain Regard showing of Precious, it might be The Paperboy (with a cast that includes: Matthew Mcconaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray, John Cusack and Nicole Kidman) that walks away with what we could call a raspberry-like award for worst received picture. Click to enlarge!

Cannes Critics' Panel Day 9

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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